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...Japanese naval tanker Hyatoma has these several years carried oil from California to Yokohama. She trailed the U. S. fleet from San Pedro to San Francisco. She put out from San Francisco on the day the fleet sailed, was several times sighted on the flank of the battleship division commanded by Admiral Pratt, entered Honolulu as the battle began, docked at Pier 7 near Admiral Coontz's umpire flagship. On several occasions, her officers paid their respects to the U. S. commanders. She went cheerfully on to the sunrise...
...Lewis once had a romantic twist (see Free Air, The Trail of the Hawk, The Job). Then discontent plagued him sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
...Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island and go out to sea about 9:15 with Manhattan at its southern border. New Haven at its centre and New Bedford at its north flank; then out far across the Atlantic before taking a sweep north to end off at the Faroe Islands, north of Scotland...
...Fais also advises against placing the new Straus Hall along the street in front of Matthews Hall, declaring that it should flank the new Chapel on Mass chusetts Avenue, along with the new Grays Hall on the other side...
...appearance of the Yard was made yesterday, when the old Japanese elm tree which for nearly half a century has shaded the quadrangle behind Hollis, was moved across the Yard to a new location behind Widener Library. Work on the foundations of the two new dormitories which are to flank Holden Chapel made the shift necessary...